Airport Terminal Leases - August 2009

We undertook this audit of airport terminal leases at the request of the airport deputy general manager. Aviation staff expressed concern that the department’s billing system did not properly interface with the city’s financial management system and data in the two systems did not reconcile.

We found:

The Department of Information Technology hired a consultant to make changes to the city’s Oracle financial system wihtout input from key system stakeholders

That several employees who no longer work for the department still had access to the system

Some current employees have more access than they need to do their jobs or their access enables them to perform incompatible job functions.

About one third of the leaseholder invoices we reviewed were paid late.